Not one of the present or maybe candidates is going to round up and mass deport illegals. Not one.
President Ike Eishenhouse was the last to do so in 1953 in Operation Wetback. He deported a little over a million illegals.
In 2009, the United States deported a record 387,790 people – a 5 percent increase over 2008. The deportation rate is down slightly from 2009, but the number of removals is still likely to be more than triple what it was in 2001.
An increasing share of deportees are immigrants who have been convicted of a crime, reflecting President Obama's desire to reorient the deportation process toward targeting criminals. Through Aug. 2, 51 percent of the 294,230 people deported this fiscal year were convicted criminals.
President Obama's aunt and uncle were not among them.
Illegals will self-deport if the employers will not hire them and the government will not give them free schooling, healthcare and other benefits.
We are seeing that already in Alabama merely because a court has upheld parts of their new law, amid wailing and gnashing of teeth by the MSM.
We are seeing that as well in Arizona with the requirement that employers check their people out with e-verify.
Perry needs to reverse course and follow what Alabama and Arizona are doing.
Well “targeting criminals” would include illegals by definition.